[Community-Discuss] [afnog] The Looting of AFRINIC

Sylvain Baya abscoco at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 20:28:06 UTC 2019


Hi all,

Le jeudi 5 décembre 2019, Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> a écrit :


> Totally agree with you Mike. It should have been almost impossible to

> manipulate the non-legacy space -

>


Dear Mark,
...i agree !

yet it happened. In this case (looting of non-legacy space), the RSA has

> meant nothing.

>


As you say, i take you on words ; then if the RSA (Registration Service
Agreement) could
easily be bypassed, how to deal with our 'emerged' problem ?

...perhaps time to seriously reconsider the long life DPP (Draft Policy
Proposal) [1] ?
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[1]: <https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2016-gen-001-d8/amp>

Shalom,
--sb.

On 2019/12/05 14:46, Mike Silber wrote:

>

> Be that as it may - that seems to ignore the fact that there appears to

> have been significant malfeasance regarding non-legacy space.

>

> I just want to ensure that we maintain a balanced view of the problem and

> not deflect it to focus only on the legacy space issue.

>

> It terms of priorities - it would make sense to me to focus on how space

> that should have been subject to the RSA has been mis-appropriated and then

> turn to the more difficult question of legacy space. If the current

> processes are open to abuse, then moving legacy space under those processes

> may not have the desired outcome.

>

> Mike

>

> On 5 Dec 2019, at 14:27, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

>

> Completely agree with Sunday.

>

> Mark.

>

> On 5/Dec/19 13:02, Sunday Folayan wrote:

>

> Isn't it time to address Legacy space issues, specifically ancient

> squatters on spaces meant to develop the Internet in Africa, AfriNIC

> Services and bringing legacy spaces under some form of RSA?

>

> I urge the community to think beyond the sensation and let us see how to

> help and empower the people doing useful work for Africa.

>

> Thanks.

>

> Sunday.

>

> On 04/12/2019 6:23 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

>

> I hope you all will take the time to read and think about the following

> news story.

>

> https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-

> resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html

> I will have more to say about this in due course. For the moment, I

> only

> wish to say that the investigation undertaken by myself and Jan Vermeulen

> is ongoing, and that many others are provably involved.

> Regards,

> rfg

>

>

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